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Because of Fitts' law, it seems that positioning commands at the immediate proximity of the cursor makes it possible to access them relatively fast: probably not as fast as elements in the corners of ...

It seems that a lot of interfaces put the delete action on the record edit page/screen and sometimes the view page/screen vs putting them right in the record list. I'm wondering if this is considered ...

For legal reasons, we now need to provide a link for privacy and terms of service information. This needs to be accessible from all pages in the system.
Normally this stuff goes at the bottom of the ...

Would it be acceptable in an iPhone app to show the iAd underneath the bottom tab bar? I know that this is not ideal, but for programming reasons I find that it may be necessary. Does this impact the ...

I am working on a website for an asset management company, and I need to provide a newsletter sign-up option.
Is a newsletter something users are specifically looking for on a site, or is it more of ...

I have been wondering why most of the popular websites go for displaying the login form on a popup or a separate page vs having it in the sidebar.
One of the very few of them that has the login form ...

I am building a news feed and I thought of changing the location of the comments to be on the side. Besides Medium that does it more for footnotes, I didn't see a website that has real discussions on ...

I am developing a cross-platform application with a custom border. The window interactions buttons (minimize/maximize/close) are in the top right, like Windows. However, when the application is run on ...

I'm implementing something similar to source control (like GitHub for flow charts) where users will have a list of changes that can be submitted. On this review page they can click on a change to see ...

Let's say that on mobile devices, a user selects a menu icon to reveal a dropdown menu of navigation items. Within these navigation items, there is the option for the user to login - With all other ...

We have a very long form, 40 fields.
Q1: Where we should place the required fields, at the top or at the bottom?
Q2: Based on the first question, where we should place the submit button? Top, bottom ...

Currently in our application we have tables of information that give you some of the most important data and them we have a view more link that pops open a modal dialog and gives the user all of the ...

It is now very common to find top horizontal menus in websites. Some reason of that might be habits and Jakob's law.
In web applications you might find a menu on top or on the left side equally. Most ...

We're adding a global "Add new X" button to our application (it will show a CRUD form for an activity, the fundamental "thing" in our app). We want it to be clickable from anywhere in the application ...

I have a question about sidebar navigation.
I am designing a web page for latest news and placed the sidebar (news navigation) on the right side. My logic was that "On the news page at first people ...

What is the best place for interaction elements?
Here's the situation: In our software there is an object (in this case a list with several items) that a user wants to work on. A user could perform ...

I have one web page (single web-app) which shows a powerful dashboard.
The design of the dashboard is nice and neat and it contains all of the information required by its functionality.
To give you ...

Hello respected UX community,
I am working on a new website which will be used to sell a software application, but will also have a free limited version of it (not time limited, but feature limited). ...

(This question is, for the time being, theoretical.)
After watching a beautiful video compiled from photographs taken from the International Space Station, I noticed the labels of the Soyuz vehicle ...

I have what is essentially a dictionary of 24 things. My initial instinct is to arrange them in a grid:
The user I get to interact with has said that they want to use the scroll wheel to change the ...

We are building an application that allows a user to build a form.
The user can enter the name of the label, pick the type of the input field and indicate whether or not it should be mandatory. The ...

I was browsing Forrst and came about a screenshot of a form designed with Twitter Bootstrap that had the label on the left, the input field on the right, and the instruction that it's required under ...

Is there a suggested, single location to place the currency symbol every time for any given locale?
For example, always on the left with a space before the amount like this:
R 10.00
$ 10.00
€ 10.00
...

When I read another thread why text messages on the iphone aren't displayed at the full width the following question came to my mind: Why do my text messages appear on the right and not on the left ...